AF Module 2:3

Question 1

Senegalese language

Answer 1

Wolof, Serer, Pulaar

Question 2

Senegambia

Answer 2

Entrepot for caravan and Islamic contact
Stateless societies, age grade systems

Question 3

Crops

Answer 3

besides the obvious millet, sorghum, yams

village staples: plantains, beans, bananas, fish, oysters, small animals

Question 4

Benin

Answer 4

• Forest Kingdom (15/16th-19th centuries)
• The Oba brought stability and became spiritual leader (Ewuare– great warrior Oba)
• Fell to the British in the Imperialistic seizure of Africa

Question 5

Songhai

Answer 5

• Dominated Western-central Sudan
• Capital Gao
• Rice (by slaves)
• Met their ends with the Moroccan Sultanate who wanted more of the trans-Saharan. defeated at tandibi.

Question 6

Benin Trade

Answer 6

Traded pepper, ivory with Dutch and Portuguese

Question 7

Taghaza

Answer 7

Settlement in WA, salt mining center

Question 8

Songhai problems

Answer 8

• Islamic oficials alienated the king from his own people (the religion never really caught on with them)
• Warring peoples (Tuaregs, Mandinka, Fulani)
• No proper way of transferring power

Question 9

Kanem Bornu

Answer 9

Under Idris Alooma, subdued weaker kingdoms and rose to power
Perpetuated Feudalism

Shipped eunuchs and young girls to NA for horses and firearms

Question 10

Hausaland

Answer 10

Traded slaves and kola nuts with NA communities
Kano & Katsina - trade and Muslim intellectual centers

Question 11

Jenne

Answer 11

Islam changed the trading city so much, it became a great market of the Muslims